Frank

Kay, it is amazing, isn’t it, that these so-called Bible teachers and scholars will affirm first, on the one hand, that the Holy Spirit can keep men from being deceived and led astray; but then, on the other hand, affirm that he can’t keep women from being deceived and led astray? But this teaching clearly goes against the Apostle John’s teaching regarding the Holy Spirit and his leading of all believers into the knowledge of the truth necessary for both salvation and godly living:

For the Holy One has given you his Spirit, and all of you know the truth. So I am not writing you because you don’t know the truth but because you know the difference between truth and lies…So you must remain faithful to what you have been taught from the beginning. If you do, you will remain in fellowship with the Son and with the Father. And in this fellowship we enjoy the eternal life he promised us. I am writing these things to warn you about those who want to lead you astray. But you have received the Holy Spirit, and he lives within you, so you don’t need anyone to teach you what is true. For the Spirit teaches you everything you need to know, and what he teaches is true–it is not a lie. So just as he has taught you, remain in fellowship with Christ.

1 John 2:20-27, NLT

And while this passage doesn’t go against what it says elsewhere in the NT about how both church ministers and Christian parents are responsible to teach us the basics of the faith from Scripture, yet it is the Spirit who remains our Teacher and Counselor, leading us into a deeper, richer and more practical knowledge of Biblical truth, without some slavish dependence on human teachers. Or so I understand this passage.